British Engineering Education
This document, prepared by Sir Monty Finniston, proposed new and improved methods to extend the period of study that prospective engineers must endure, and compared the British engineering education system to those found in other countries.
What is the Finniston Report?
This standard explains the procedures and requirements to becoming a recognized professional engineering technician in the United Kingdom.
What is UK-SPEC?
EC
What is the Engineering Council?
This individual was the United States President's Chief of Staff from 1989-1991, and was considered to be an expert policymaker due to his background in the technological field.
Who is John Sununu?
It was estimated by Lord Sainsbury that by the Summer of 2004, this many SSCs would be nationally recognized and licensed under full five-year licenses.
What is 23-25 SSCs?
This professional engineering body founded in 1818, sets many standards for the civil engineering field in the United Kingdom.
What is the Institution of Civil Engineers?
What are ITEC skills and telecommunications skills?
SSC
What are Sector Skills Councils?
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science and Innovation
Who is Lord Sainsbury of Turville?
The first edition of SARTOR was published in this year, leading to two more updated and revised editions in the following decade and a complete redesign of the registration under the new name of UK-SPEC in 2003.
When is 1984?
This overviewing body brought about many changes that strengthened and standardized the engineering field's position within British economy and society.
What is the Engineering Council (EC)?
This committee strengthened the connection between the lack of education in the engineering field and the steady decline in industrial productivity in the United Kingdom in the 1880's.
What is the Samuelson Committee?
SEMTA
What is the Science, Engineering, and Manufacturing Technologies Alliance?
Founder of The Society of Civil Engineers.
Who is John Smeaton (1771)?
This register is maintained by the Engineering Council and was established in 1974 by The Engineering Registration Board.
What is The Engineering Technician register?
In 1841 the president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, James Walker, spoke about this issue, in an attempt to bring about new educational developments with British engineering education.
What is "the danger of producing a superfluity of engineers through the engineering courses that were then struggling for life in some British universities."
What is SARTOR (Standards and Routes to Registration)?
COMETT
This individual was the first president of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1847 and was a firm believer in self-improvement through adult-education, a concept that was not evident in other organizations such as The Institution of Civil Engineers at the time.
Who is George Stephenson?
These two new degrees were proposed in the Finniston Report and were based upon a new set of standardized qualifications in engineering education in the United Kingdom.
What are a Master of Engineering degree (M Eng) and Bachelor of Engineering degree (B Eng)?
In order to be registered as a Chartered Engineer or Incorporated Engineer, individuals must display and be committed to these standards.
What are maintain competence to perform professional work, work with professional codes, and participate actively within the profession?
These three SSCs were granted full five-year licenses as of December 1st, 2003.
What are SEMTA, e-Skills UK, and Construction Skills?
SATRO
What is the Science and Technology Regional Organization?
This individual set forth a campaign in which they developed an engineering curriculum based around a series of practical textbooks that they wrote on the subject of the British engineering field.
Who is W. J. M. Rankine?
In this year, the Secretary of State for Industry, Eric Varley, and Sir Monty Finniston inquired into engineering to reform the Council of Engineering Institutions and address the common disputes among engineers about their pay, social status, and qualifications.
When is 1977?